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2007 – Bristol Cathedral & St Mary Radcliffe

In 2007, the ECS visited the city of Bristol, to sing at Bristol Cathedral and the parish church of St Mary Redcliffe.  The music list was as follows:

Monday Evensong (Transfiguration) – Bristol Cathedral

  • Introit: O nata Lux – Tallis
  • Preces and Responses: Nardone
  • Psalm: 72
  • Canticles: Harwood in A flat
  • Anthem: Christ whose glory fills the sky – Darke

 

Tuesday Evensong – Bristol Cathedral

  • Introit: Bless O Lord – John Harper
  • Preces and Responses: Gabriel Jackson
  • Psalm: 50
  • Canticles: Hopper
  • Anthem: If ye love me – Wilby


Wednesday Evensong – Bristol Cathedral

  • Introit: Locus iste – Bruckner
  • Preces & Responses: Nardone
  • Psalm: 59
  • Canticles: Brewer in D
  • Anthem: They that go down to the sea in ships – Sumsion

 

Friday Evensong – Bristol Cathedral 

  • Introit: God be in my head – Nicholson
  • Preces and Responses: Ayleward
  • Psalm: 38
  • Canticles: Ayleward
  • Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end – Greene

Saturday Evensong – St Mary Redcliffe

  • Introit: Bless us, O Lord – John Harper
  • Preces & Responses: Gabriel Jackson
  • Psalm: 66
  • Canticles: Nicholson in D
  • Anthem: I will sing with the Spirit – John Rutter

Sunday Sung Eucharist – St Mary Redcliffe

  • Mass Setting:  The Prince of Peace (in Latin) – W. S. Lloyd Webbe
  • Oculi omnium – Andrew Parnell
  • O sacrum convivium – E. d’Evry

Sunday Matins – St Mary Redcliffe

  • Introit: Cantate Domini – Pitoni
  • Preces & Responses: Sumsion
  • Psalm: 115
  • Te Deum: Stanford in Bflat
  • Jubilate: Stanford in Bflat
  • Anthem: Praise the Lord, O my Soul – Andrew Fletcher

Sunday Evensong – St Mary Redcliffe

  • Introit: God be in my head – Nicholson
  • Preces & Responses: Sumsion
  • Psalm:108 or 11
  • Canticles: Sumsion in 
  • Anthem: Cantique de Jean Racine – Fauré

 

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2008 – Lincoln Cathedral

In August 2008, the ECS visited Lincoln Cathedral for a week and sang the daily services there.  Additionally, we were privileged to provide the music for the annual service of the Knights Templar.  The music list was as follows:

 

Monday 4 August

  • Preces and Responses: Nardone
  • Office Hymn: OH 3
  • Psalms: 7, 8
  • Canticles: Hopper in B minor
  • Anthem: O for a closer walk – Grayston Ives
  • Hymn: NEH 464

Tuesday 5 August

  • Preces and Responses: Archer
  • Office Hymn: NEH 218
  • Psalms: 9
  • Canticles: Sumsion in A
  • Anthem: Now the God of Peace – Gerald Knight
  • Hymn: 492


Wednesday 6 August – Transfiguration

  • Introit: O Nata Lux – Thomas Tallis (OUP)
  • Office Hymn: NEH 176
  • Preces and Responses: Byrd
  • Psalm: 72
  • Canticles: Harwood in A flat
  • Anthem: Christ whose glory fills the sky – Harold Darke
  • Hymn: NEH 178
  • Antiphon

Friday 8 August (with the viols consort)       

  • Preces and Responses: Byrd
  • Office Hymn: 220
  • Psalms: 13, 14   
  • Canticles: 1st Service – Thomas Weelkes
  • Anthem: O thou the central Orb – Orlando Gibbons
  • Hymn: 482


Saturday 9 August – The Knights Templar

  • Introit: Lift up your heads, O ye gates
  • Hymn: Christ is made the sure foundation (NEH 205)        .
  • Anthem: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem – Charles V. Stanford
  • Hymn: Praise my soul, the King of Heaven (NEH 436)
  • Anthem: I was glad – Charles H. Parry
  • Anthem: Non nobis Domine
  • Hymn: When a knight won his spurs
  • Hymn: For all the saints (NEH 197)
  • Hymn: National Anthem

Saturday 9 August

  • Preces and Responses: Archer
  • Office Hymn: OH 1
  • Psalms: 15, 16
  • Canticles: Sumsion in G
  • Anthem: Hear my prayer – Adrian Batten
  • Hymn: NEH 338

Sunday 10 August
Sung Eucharist

  • Communion Setting: The Prince of Peace – W.S. Lloyd Webber
  • Motet: I give to you a new commandment – Peter Nardone
  • Hymns: AMNS 148, 220, 273, 372

Mattins   

  • Preces and responses    Sumsion
  • Venite  
  • Psalm: 88
  • Te Deum: Stanford in B flat
  • Jubilate: Stanford in B flat
  • Anthem: God is gone up with a merry noise – William Croft
  • Hymns: AMNS 194, 146 (omit * verses)
  • Final responses: Sumsion

Evensong

  • Preces and Responses: Sumsion
  • Office Hymn: OH 2
  • Psalm: 86
  • Canticles: Brewer in D
  • Anthem: Let Saints on earth – Anthony Caesar
  • Hymn: AMNS 170
  • Final Responses: Sumsion
  • Final sung prayer: Bless O Lord, us thy servants – John Harper

 

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Gallery

We intend to publish a gallery of photographs taken at RSCM or ECS events.  In the meantime, please visit our Picasa web album.

 

 

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Voice for Life – Bronze and Silver Award Exams

We will be holding Voice for Life bronze and silver award exams in Northwest Europe based on our own syllabus and with our own examiners. This is a first!

Date: Saturday 13 June; at St Boniface, Antwerp, Belgium.

For more information, and to download the syllabus and application form, please see our Voice for Life pages.

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Membership

Membership of the North West Europe branch is arranged centrally through the main RSCM office in the UK.  Further information can be found on their site. Our events, and the Voice for Life scheme, are open to individual members and members of affiliated choirs.

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2009 – York Minster

Monday 10 August – Choral Evensong

  • Preces and responses: Nardone
  • Psalms: 54, 55
  • Canticles: Wood in E flat
  • Anthem: God is Love – Andrew Carter

Tuesday 11 August – Choral Evensong

  • Preces and responses: Grayston Ives
  • Psalms: 59, 60, 61
  • Canticles: Sumsion in A
  • Anthem: The Lord hath been mindful – S.S. Wesley

Wednesday 12 August – Choral Evensong

  • Preces and responses: Tomkins
  • Psalms: 65 & 66 or 66 & 67
  • Canticles: Noble in B minor
  • Anthem: And I saw a new heaven – Bainton

Friday 14 August – Choral Evensong

  • Preces and responses: Tomkins
  • Psalms: 73
  • Canticles: Mendelssohn
  • Anthem: Save us, O Lord – Bairstow

Saturday 15 August (the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary) – Choral Evensong

  • Preces and responses: Grayston Ives
  • Psalms: 132
  • Canticles: Daniel Purcell
  • Anthem: Ave Maria – Robert Parsons

Sunday 16 August Choral Eucharist

  • Communion setting: Prince of Peace – W.S. Lloyd Webber
  • Motet: I give to you a new commandment – Nardone

Sunday 16 August – Sung Mattins

  • Preces and responses: Bernard Rose
  • Psalms: 106: 1-10
  • Te Deum: Stanford in B flat
  • Jubilate: Stanford in B flat
  • Anthem: Hear my Prayer – Batten

Sunday 16 August – Choral Evensong

  • Preces and responses: Rose
  • Psalms: 100
  • Canticles: Brewer in D
  • Anthem: Let Saints on earth – Anthony Caesar
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ECS Members Area

The ECS members area gives access to resources relating to ECS events.  If you do not yet have a user id for the site, please contact Andrew.

For the programmes for the upcoming visits, please click on Upcoming Events in the members’ menu on the left hand side. 

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Voice for Life – Gold

The Gold Award is the highest award within the RSCM, and replaces the St Nicolas and St Cecilia awards. Usually candidates have done the Bronze and Silver Awards before going on to Gold.

The examiners are based in the UK, exams are taken twice a year (deadline, dates and venues are on the RSCM website). Occasionally an examiner comes to our area, so the possibility is there for taking exams here. 

Please go to the Gold award syllabus and page on the main RSCM website.